Entries by First Sun Team

#Strategy: Drive Your Own #Success By Learning How To Manage Your #Manager… Simply #Managing your Staff isn’t Enough to Get Results in #Business. You also Need to #Manage your #Boss.

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You are the Expert in your Own Area, and you Know what you Need to Deliver Success in your Department & to Contribute to the Company’s Bottom Line. It’s Not that your #Boss Doesn’t Contribute—it’s Just that their Contribution is Different from Yours. And for Them to Get you What you Need to #Manage your Department […]

#Strategy: 8 Ways Goofing Off Can Make You More Productive … Research Suggests That the Longer you Keep your Rear End in your Chair & your Eyes Glued to your Screen, the Less #Productive you may Be.

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I Offer this List of #Productive Ways to Goof Off During the Day & Evening. These Tactics will Boost your #Productivity & Sense of Well Being. But Beware Not to Overdo any of Them. Take too many breaks and you may enter the realm of procrastination. One of my colleagues used to head to the […]

#Leadership: 4 Things You Should Ask an #Employee Who’s Leaving… A Solid Exit Interview that will Hopefully not Only Yield Valuable Insights, but That will Leave Everyone Feeling Good about our Experience Working Together.

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I wouldn’t have tried to talk her out of her decision, but there are a few questions I would have asked her if I had the chance to do it over again. (For the record, these are my questions as a #Leader & #Manager, not necessarily from a #Legal or # HR standpoint. Google is […]

Your #Career: Are You Sabotaging Your Chances For A #Job Or Promotion? … Ouch! Life is Hard Enough without Hearing Things Like that In your Own Head. So we Worked on Ways to Get Rid of those Negative Thoughts by Changing Them into Pep Talks

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Have you ever been frustrated in your career and thought something similar; that you’re not good enough so why even bother to apply for the job? That little voice we hear in our heads is known as “self-talk.” This internal voice can be positive or negative. Either way, it often turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. […]

#Leadership: As Minimum Wages Rise, Smaller Firms & Companies Get Squeezed…If you Raise the Minimum Wage on People Who are Doing Data Entry or Washing Dishes, What Does that Mean to my Skilled Employees who are Only Making a Few Dollars more?”

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Hannah Joseph dreams of bringing gourmet grilled hot dogs to food lovers coast to coast. But she now rules out owning any new restaurants beyond the two she and her husband currently operate in Indianapolis.  The reason: high staffing costs, and growing competition for low-wage workers. “I don’t want to deal with more employees,” said […]

#Strategy: 10 Choices You Will Always Regret Making…Here are Choices you Will Someday Regret Having Made.

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Hindsight is a funny thing. Look forward and the path seems uncertain, the future unpredictable.  Look back and all the dots seem to connect … except the dots that mark the choices you didn’t make, and the risks you didn’t take. You’ll regret choosing not to care. Here are choices you will someday regret having made: 1. Choosing not […]

#Leadership: 3 Reasons Being A Manager Is Overrated…Before you Start Dreaming about Stock Options & your Name on a Door Plaque, Here are a Few Downsides of Being Top Dog

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Being a Boss Means that you’re Ultimately Accountable for the Output of your Team — for Better or Worse. A statistic I stumbled across while researching a previous piece has been stuck in my head this week. According to Deloitte’s 2015 Millennial Survey, 53% of Millennials across the globe aspire to be senior leaders (up […]

#Leadership: Agile Leadership and the Manager/Entrepreneur…Remaining Flexible is One of the Most Important Traits a Leader can Possess–Especially Today.

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Over the last number of years, the word “agile” has been tossed around in numerous ways. The most common use has roots in the programming world, where “agile” is regarded as one step forward from “waterfall” as a means of making incremental improvements, to assure that the final product grows and is adjusted through the […]

#Leadership: 6 Words For Stopping Blame & Increasing Accountability… When people Mess up at #Work, they Dodge #Accountability & Shift the #Responsibility to Someone Else. This is Called Blame.

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So when #Employees Blame Each Other, it’s Up to #Leaders to Turn that Blame into #Accountability. How? By using 6 simple words: “Let’s discuss what we CAN control.” Let me explain… Sometimes when people mess up at work, they dodge accountability and shift the responsibility to someone else. This is called blame. Far too many […]

#Leadership: 9 Brilliant Business Books you can Read in an Afternoon…Best Business Books under 150 pages. All you Need is an Afternoon to Read Through these Greats.

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Starting a new book can seem daunting and overly time-consuming. The good news is there are several short business books loaded with powerful information about selling, managing, and investing. We compiled a list of the best business books under 150 pages that you can start and finish in an afternoon. All you need is an afternoon […]